After a few months of prepping and conducting interviews and then many more months of analyzing and writing up what we found, we’re| erinkissane.com
Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups.| Human Rights Watch
Who should do the heavy, tricky, fraught work of making and keeping our networks good? How should they work? To whom should they be accountable, and how can “accountability” be redeemed from its dissipated state and turned into something with both teeth and discretion?| erinkissane.com
Block Meta or "trust but verify"?| The Nexus Of Privacy
Meta's Threads service is joining the Fediverse, and I think there are some things about Meta—and about Fediverse mechanics—that it's important to include in that conversation.| erinkissane.com
This is the second post in a series on what Meta did in Myanmar and what the broader technology community can learn from it. It will make a lot more| erinkissane.com
“Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar.” —Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Burmese punk band Rebel Riot 1 Back in early July, I started working on a quick| erinkissane.com
Between July and October of this year, I did a lot of reading and writing about the role of Meta and Facebook—and the internet more broadly—in the| erinkissane.com
The Atlantic Council’s report on the looming challenges of scaling trust and safety on the web opens with this statement: That which occurs offline| erinkissane.com
“Well, Congressman, I view our responsibility as not just building services that people like to use, but making sure that those services are also| erinkissane.com
I changed servers on Mastodon last week and I learned a lot and I have opinions. To begin with, the best time to move from one home server to| erinkissane.com
Ed. note: This post is from July, 2023. It circulates every month or so on social networks and a lot of people think it’s new, probably because I| erinkissane.com
DRAFT! Work in progress! Feedback welcome| The Nexus Of Privacy
A hopefully more approachable explanation of the Mastodon configuration settings Authorized Fetch and Disallow Unauthenticated API Access| Sunny Garden Hub
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.| Mastodon Blog